Railway Exchange Building | |
 Railway Exchange Building From Locust Street | |
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| Location | 600 Locust St., St. Louis, Missouri |
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| Coordinates | 38°37′50″N 90°11′22″W / 38.63056°N 90.18944°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1913 |
| Built by | Korte Co. |
| Architect | Mauran, Russell & Crowell |
| Architectural style | Early Commercial |
| NRHP reference No. | 09000411[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 11, 2009 |
The Railway Exchange Building is an 84.4 m (277 ft), 21-story high-rise office building in St. Louis, Missouri. The 1914 steel-frame building is in the Chicago school architectural style, and was designed by architect Mauran, Russell & Crowell. The building was the city's tallest when it opened, and remains the second-largest building in downtown St. Louis by interior area, with almost 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m2) of space.[2][3]
The building was long home to the flagship store of the Famous-Barr chain of department stores — and the headquarters of its parent company May Department Stores — until Macy's purchased the brand; the store was rebranded as Macy's in 2006.[4] Macy's sold the building in 2008[5] and closed the store in 2013.[6]
In January 2017, Hudson Holdings, a National Historic Property Developer based in Delray Beach, Florida, purchased the building for $20 million.[7][8]
The city of St. Louis was granted an emergency condemnation on 4 Jan 2023, and proceeded to kick out people who appeared to be squatting and board up the building. [9]
